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It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

fuckthisshit-ugh

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

2productive

Tracking progress without becoming obsessed

* Track overall trends, not daily fluctuations.

* Measure your consistency before you measure outcomes. Sometimes progress is stagnant or delayed, but if you are consistently doing the work that moves you forward, that’s all that matters and the progress will catch up in due time.

* Use your progress to gather information, not to belittle yourself. You can neutrally acknowledge where you haven’t been doing your best and then improve. There’s no need to beat yourself up in the process.

* Take progress photos because mirrors and memories can be misleading.

* Remember that healthy progress is rarely perfectly linear, especially if it’s a long term goal.

* When you reach a plateau, consider that a test of whether you will continue to be consistent or not. It’s pretty much the breaking point between the have’s and the have-not’s.

* Build a life where healthy habits become automatic, and progress becomes a natural byproduct. Being super smart comes from an education-focused lifestyle. Being someone who reads 100 books a year comes from a reading-focused lifestyle. Maintaining your ideal body comes from a health and fitness focused lifestyle. You should just strive for the long term lifestyle of doing the habits, the outcome will happen on it’s own.

translatingpostsinfrench

je sais que c'est pas le blog pour ça mais j'avais vraiment envie d'écrire quelque chose sur ce que c'est d'être queer en france aujourd'hui pour moi, et si vous le voulez bien, de me partager vos propres pensées. je vous laisse les miennes sous le cut, et je vous passe le micro

pour moi, vivre en france en tant que queer est une dissonance cognitive constante. je regarde les stories instagram de mon amie trans, elle vient de finir sa première année sur le terrain après avoir passé son CAPES et s'émeut des petits cadeaux de ses tout premiers élèves. juste après, je reçoit un message d'une autre amie trans qui m'annonce qu'elle a accepté un rapport tariffé pour la première fois, en désespoir de cause. ma copine me demande si elle peut m'embrasser au milieu d'un café bondé, et bien sûr que j'accepte, avec une pensée pour ce garçon encore plus jeune que nous, laissé pour mort après une agression homophobe exactement dans la même ville que nous, avec une pensée pour mes darons qui ne sauront jamais, jamais. je fais du rangement dans mes vieilles notes de la fac et je repense à mon cours de droit des personnes, où on nous a expliqué que la procédure de changement de sexe à l'état civil a largement évolué dans le but de simplifier les parcous de transition. je pense aux murmures dans l'amphi tout au long de ce passage. je pense surtout au courier du tribunal, aux juges qui ont regardé mon amie droit dans les yeux avant de noter que "sa comparution et sa présentation à l'audience ne laissent pas apparaitre qu'il se présente comme appartenant au sexe féminin revendiqué", la phrase la plus violente que j'ai pu lire depuis un moment. je vois les drapeaux queers à la vitrine d'une banque, à l'étage, puis je baisse les yeux et je vois une dame qui regarde mes doigts entrelacés avec ceux de ma copine comme une crotte de chien sur le troittoir. je pense aussi au soir où j'ai embrassé une fille à un arrêt de bus, tard le soir, et que quelqu'un que je n'ai pas pu distingué nous a applaudi.e.s.

#Je ne suis pas queer mais je reblogue par soutien #On ne lâchera rien tant que vous n'aurez pas les mêmes droits que nous #On ne vous lâchera pas même si ça se barre encore plus en steak au niveau politique #On ne lâchera pas non plus les personnes qui sortent d'autres types de cases ou qui sortent de plusieurs types de cases en même temps #C'est fou comme les Français adorent les cases encore plus que les autres #En tant que psychologue c'est dur de trouver des ressources pro qui ne sont pas -phobes #Encore plus dur d'en trouver des francophones #Ce qui veut dire qu'elles sont encore à écrire :-)#🌈❤️

bigfatbitchdotcom

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

bigfatbitchdotcom

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

bigfatbitchdotcom

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

its-the-blob

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

ralfmaximus

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

robotslenderman

The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.

As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:

WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!

Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.

In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.

Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.

Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.

Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.

Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.

If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.

Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.

Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.

Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.

Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.

If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.

Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.

Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.

robotslenderman

Bringing this back for my dying mutuals

confirmance

*Mutual reblogs something you posted*

Me: They still like me. Thank God.

kazoosandfannypacks

reblog this post to let the mutual you reblogged this from know that you still like them

#reblog #I still love you despite AAAALL the Maul content I follow nothing about 😂#💖

positive-pumpkin

If this is the sign you're looking for, please

stay alive

stay safe

Drink some water

eat something

get back into the things you love

Unclench your jaw

do some self-care

Take a shower or bath

Take your med(s)

musashi

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

musashi

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

succubusboyfriend

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

succubusboyfriend

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

reasonsforhope

If you do not schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you

pcos-and-endo-awareness

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

leahstuff

For reference, from the WHO website:

(Text: PCOS affects an estimated 10-13% of reproductive-aged women. It is estimated that up to 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition.)

laziestgirlintown

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

bluetraverser

This is great news indeed-

NOW INCLUDE TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE IN THE WORDS YOU USE BECAUSE THEY TOO ARE AFFECTED IF THEY HAVE THOSE ORGANS

*not directed at previous poster who already used inclusive language

traumasurvivors

If things are going well and your brain whispers, “Don’t relax, it won’t last” that’s your nervous system remembering chaos, not predicting the future.

Calm takes practice.

#reblog #psychology #YESSS #THIS #This sums up anxiety very well

sweetschizo-deactivated20190808

Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.

sweetschizo-deactivated20190808

Please consider reblogging this/other positivity posts for schizophrenic/psychotic people every once in a while. If you have more than 100 followers, odds are that a couple of them experiences psychosis and that they rarely see positivity posts for people with their symptoms.

depsidase

transgang-deactivated20201105

you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.

sapphoandvanzetti

Search and rescue teams do not ask if a hiker was properly equipped and prepared before they go out to look for them. EMTs do not ask if a driver checked their mirrors before they take them to the hospital. Lifeguards do not ask if a swimmer made a mistake by going into a riptide before they dive in after them. Judgement doesn't help anyone, including you, the person doing the judging. Just help people. Just shut the fuck up and help people.

sleepyfishboy

Shelter and food should always be treated as a right. People like me who are disabled can't make the "good" decisions. Even if I was able to, no one should fucking have to. Addicts deserve a home and food. Felons deserve a home and food. "Lazy" people deserve a home and food. Perfectly typical people that make "good" decisions deserve a home and food. You do. I do. There's plenty of food and space in the world. There never needs to be a fucking prerequisite.

isuggestlandback

I have a baby cousin who's Two Spirit.

Their parents are leftists, open minded, pro LGBTQ+, learned to use the right pronouns (to their face at least) all that jazz.

Their Auntie grew up in a remote area, little old fashioned, doesn't really "get" the non binary thing, and hasn't quite got the hang of the singular 'they' yet. But she tries.

When my cousin got injured and couldn't drive their parents shrugged and told them to quit their job.

Their Auntie drove them to and from work every day until they got their cast off.

Which family member do you think they'll ask next time they need help?

Do you want to be ideologically perfect, or do you want to help?